About a generation ago, south Asian immigrants living in the bleak, industrial British city of Birmingham invented an ethnic-based brand of party music. As Asian Groove shows, today's young ravers have upped the ante, drawing upon percussive Punjabi bhangra and qawwali, an ecstasy-inducing Pakistani devotional style made famous by the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. These are then festooned with defiantly artificial canned snares, ambient electronics, plus absurdist quotes … mehrfrom Bollywood musicals, saccharine Euro-pop and over-the-top lounge clichés. The resulting polyglot pastiches tend to be fashioned in broad strokes and are thus not ideal for quiet living-room listening. However, they are BPM nirvana when experienced in a nightclub with a few hundred other blissed-out, glassy-eyed dancers. That being said, these are fascinating examples of one of the world's more subtly subversive underground movements, where music is being made by and for populations who prefer to assimilate only so much and on their own terms. --Christina Roden weniger
1 - Pheli War - Japgal, Bally
2 - Sabhyata - Karmix
3 - Remember Tomorrow - Mo' Horizons
4 - Terian Gulabi Buliyan - Kang, A.S.
5 - Black Night - Khan, Badar Ali… mehr
6 - Awake - Mungal & Nitin Sawhney
7 - Anime - Dr. Didg
8 - Night In Lenasia - Ram, Deepak
9 - Mamavatu - Raman, Susheela
10 - Noorie - Sagoo, Bally
11 - Aankh Naal - Dhillon, Kam weniger